I am using Macintosh Power PC G3 300mhz computers, Mac OS 9.2.1, Edirol PCR-30
Keyboard controllers and Finale 2004. All the computers have been working for
about a year and last week 2 of them started having problems.
When I start up the Finale it opens, but as soon as I try to use Speedy Note
entry it freezes and I have to restart the computer. My first thought was that
there may have been an extension conflict so I went to OS 9 Base and added 1 by
one. I still am having troubles. I am using OMS 2.3.7 and 2.3.8. I called
Edirol and they suggested I upgrade to OS X. Do you have any other suggestions.
It is working on all the other computer. Thanks.
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1. Re: PDFs on WinFin2005 (Christopher Smith)
2. Re: PDFs on WinFin2005 (Peter Taylor)
3. Re: PDFs on WinFin2005 (Raymond Horton)
4. Re: OT: Windows users BEWARE of Sony BMG music CD's!
(Raymond Horton)
5. Re: fermatas (Andrew Stiller)
6. Re: TAN: News story about MakeMusic! (Andrew Stiller)
7. Re: PDFs on WinFin2005 (Christopher Smith)
8. display time signature (Steven Gruver)
9. Re: display time signature (ThomaStudios)
10. Re: display time signature (Brad Beyenhof)
11. Re: General upgrade question (Brad Beyenhof)
12. Re: display time signature (Peter Taylor)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 08:30:39 -0500
From: Christopher Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Finale] PDFs on WinFin2005
To: [email protected]
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On Nov 15, 2005, at 5:45 AM, Peter Taylor wrote:
>
> CutePDF works fine for me too, thanks for the advice. The size of the
> files it generates is a lot bigger than the Adobe PDF Writer, which
> might be a problem for some of my architectural clients still on
> dial-up, so I will keep both programs on my system for the time being.
> I've added the correctly-generated PDF of my score on my webspace
> http://www.euphonium.plus.com/Music/Finale/MainScore2(CutePDF).pdf
>
Sorry for the bad news, but this PDF does not open correctly on my Mac.
The noteheads, rather than all being bass clefs as before, are now
empty rectangles.
If you need PDF conversion, I could do it with the Mac's built-in
process, if you want. Being a fellow euphonist and all, it's the least
I can do!
Send me the files privately, and I'll send them back as PDF.
Christopher
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 15:06:07 -0000
From: "Peter Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Finale] PDFs on WinFin2005
To: <[email protected]>
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 1:30 PM
Subject: Re: [Finale] PDFs on WinFin2005
>
> On Nov 15, 2005, at 5:45 AM, Peter Taylor wrote:
>>
>> CutePDF works fine for me too, thanks for the advice. The size of the
>> files it generates is a lot bigger than the Adobe PDF Writer, which might
>> be a problem for some of my architectural clients still on dial-up, so I
>> will keep both programs on my system for the time being. I've added the
>> correctly-generated PDF of my score on my webspace
>> http://www.euphonium.plus.com/Music/Finale/MainScore2(CutePDF).pdf
>>
>
> Sorry for the bad news, but this PDF does not open correctly on my Mac.
> The noteheads, rather than all being bass clefs as before, are now empty
> rectangles.
That's disappointing. Could it be due to using Maestro Wide as the default
music font? Could you possibly see it you get the same with plain Maestro
http://www.euphonium.plus.com/Music/Finale/Maestro.pdf
Also I found an option in the CuteFTP print set-up to "download TT fonts as
Softfonts" I don't understand that but I made a file with that option
selected:
http://www.euphonium.plus.com/Music/Finale/MainScore2(Softfont).pdf
> If you need PDF conversion, I could do it with the Mac's built-in process,
> if you want. Being a fellow euphonist and all, it's the least I can do!
>
> Send me the files privately, and I'll send them back as PDF.
>
> Christopher
That's a great offer, thanks very much, but this was just an example and I
don't need a PDF of it just yet. I'll come back to you if anyone contacts
me about publishing rights!
Peter
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 10:25:50 -0500
From: Raymond Horton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Finale] PDFs on WinFin2005
To: [email protected]
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Nightingale wrote:
> I installed something called CutePDF and it works well for me. I'm
> using 2006 on XP.
>
I use CutePDF, also. I've use with 2005 on XP and have used it for two
or three Finale versions now.
RBH
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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 10:38:57 -0500
From: Raymond Horton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Finale] OT: Windows users BEWARE of Sony BMG music CD's!
To: [email protected]
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WASHINGTON POST.COM
SECURITY FIX
Brian Krebs on Computer Security
More Sony Problems to Be Revealed
Several groups of privacy and security experts are expected to release
research later today that points to multiple, serious security flaws
present in "*XCP*," the anti-piracy software used on an undisclosed
number of *Sony BMG* music CDs. (For the record, *Security Fix* observed
that experts were busily searching for such flaws
<http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2005/11/hackers_raid_so_1.html>
shortly after this whole fiasco began).
According to details provided by prominent security researcher *Dan
Kaminsky <http://www.doxpara.com>*, the resulting public outcry could
make Sony feel like the last two weeks of consumer backlash were a walk
in the park.
Kaminsky will be unveiling research that indicates just how many
computer networks have Sony's anti-piracy software installed on them.
Kaminsky declined to be more specific, but numbers referenced
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/technology/daily/graphics/complaint_111405.pdf>
in a class-action lawsuit filed Tuesday in New York
<http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2005/11/sony_faces_anot.html>
against Sony and XCP maker *First4Internet* indicate that Sony sold
approximately 3 million music CDs carrying the software.
"The net effect is that it's not in doubt that Sony has created a major
security event on the Net," Kaminsky said in an online chat last night.
But wait, it gets ... er ... better. The researchers discovered a
security flaw in XCP (which stands for "extended copyright protection")
that could afford attackers a window through which to break into
computers running the software and install additional software or viruses.
Kaminsky told me that one of the researchers involved in the
investigation is *Edward Felten
<http://www.cs.princeton.edu/%7Efelten/>*, a professor of computer
science and public affairs at Princeton University.
And indeed, Felten's blog -- *Freedom to Tinker*
<http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=926> -- hints as to the research he
will release tomorrow along with *Alex Halderman
<http://www.princeton.edu/%7Ejhalderm/>*, a Ph.D. student at Princeton
whose research <http://www.cs.princeton.edu/%7Ejhalderm/cd3/> includes
digital rights management technologies, including *SunnComm Technologies
<http://www.sunncomm.com/index_flash.html>*, a different anti-piracy
program used by other Sony titles
<http://www.boingboing.net/2005/11/10/sony_music_cds_infec.html> :
"Alex Halderman and I have confirmed that Sony's Web-based XCP
uninstallation utility exposes users to serious security risk. Under at
least some circumstances, running Sony's Web-based uninstaller opens a
huge security hole on your computer. We have a working demonstration
exploit. ... In the meantime, we recommend strongly against downloading
or running Sony's Web-based XCP uninstaller."
(The name of Felten's blog is a nod to his prior
<http://www.boingboing.net/2005/11/10/sony_music_cds_infec.html>high-profile
legal dust-up with the entertainment industry
<http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/Felten_v_RIAA/faq_felten.html> over alleged
violations of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
<http://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf>.)
I tried to contact Felten earlier today, and no doubt he was too busy
with this research to grab the phone. I contacted Halderman by e-mail,
who confirmed that "the uninstaller can create even worse problems than"
those created by the anti-piracy software itself. Halderman said further
details would be available on Felten's site later today.
One of XCP's most alarming traits for security researchers has been its
ability to hide not just its own files on a user's PC but also those of
any other files, viruses or worms that follow the program's file-naming
rules -- hidden so well that even antivirus programs can't find it.
Last week, about the same time that someone mass-spammed several
versions of a virus
<http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2005/11/virus_writers_e.html>
designed to take advantage of XCP's file-hiding abilities, Sony issued a
"patch" to help users remove the file-hiding function. (The patch did
not uninstall the program itself, which resists removal so effectively
that security researchers have equated it to a "rootkit
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rootkit>".)
But according to research to be presented tomorrow, that very same patch
Sony issued to help close the security hole exposed by its software
actually introduces additional security flaws.
While exposing oblivious users to additional risks when someone or
something has already compromised their computer is in itself
inexcusable, opening that user's system to backdoor security flaws and
then paving the way for attackers to install whatever they please
without fear of detection or removal is unconscionable.
Imagine the potential consequences of military personnel or government
employees at work on a sensitive government network popping one of these
CDs into their computer to listen to their favorite Sony-label music
artist. If only half of this research turns out to be supported by the
broader security community, Sony is about to find itself in big-league
legal trouble.
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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 11:21:33 -0500
From: Andrew Stiller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Finale] fermatas
To: [email protected]
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> On Nov 14, 2005, at 8:54 AM, John Howell wrote:
>
>> I always take it [fermata over barline] as meaning an unmeasured
>> pause, but one of less that a full bar's length. A fermata over a
>> whole rest, on the other hand, indicates a Grand Pause with a length
>> of more than a full bar's length. But I don't know how others would
>> interpret it.
That's a bit rigid, it seems to me. Imagine a movement in 3, presto,
one fast beat to the bar. If there were a fermata over a barline, I'd
expect it to be given at least 4 or 5 bars duration at such a speed.
On the other hand, sometimes a GP may want less than a full measure's
pause. A 3-beat rest following a 4/4 measure (for example) would
otherwise require a one-bar change of meter, which pre-20th-c.
composers would tend to eschew.
Andrew Stiller
Kallisti Music Press
http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/
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Message: 6
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 11:32:48 -0500
From: Andrew Stiller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Finale] TAN: News story about MakeMusic!
To: [email protected]
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> On Nov 14, 2005, at 3:15 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
>
>> None of these issues were addressed in the article, which pretty much
>> shows that it was a typical article by a lazy journalist who isn't
>> really interested in researching the subject, but instead just wants
>> to fill so many column inches.
Speaking as someone who has actually done some newspaper journalism, I
think you need to bear in mind what this story was about. It was not a
profile of MakeMusic, for which indeed research of the type mentioned
would be essential. It was a story about a sudden and unexpected surge
in MakeMusic's stock. All this story required was an explanation of the
uptick, and anything else would have been extraneous.
Journalists seldom find themselves with the luxury of having more
column-inches to fill than they have the facts to fill them with.
Almost always, it is the reverse: there is more to say than there is
room to say it in. One of the first things one learns in journalism is
to keep stories as concise and to the point as possible, and to avoid
going off on tangents, however interesting. I frankly thought this
particular story did exactly what it set out to do, and had I been its
editor I wouldn't have changed a word.
Andrew Stiller
Kallisti Music Press
http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/
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Message: 7
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 11:35:15 -0500
From: Christopher Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Finale] PDFs on WinFin2005
To: [email protected]
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On Nov 15, 2005, at 10:06 AM, Peter Taylor wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Smith"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 1:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [Finale] PDFs on WinFin2005
>
>
>>
>> On Nov 15, 2005, at 5:45 AM, Peter Taylor wrote:
>>>
>>> CutePDF works fine for me too, thanks for the advice. The size of
>>> the files it generates is a lot bigger than the Adobe PDF Writer,
>>> which might be a problem for some of my architectural clients still
>>> on dial-up, so I will keep both programs on my system for the time
>>> being. I've added the correctly-generated PDF of my score on my
>>> webspace
>>> http://www.euphonium.plus.com/Music/Finale/MainScore2(CutePDF).pdf
>>>
>>
> > Sorry for the bad news, but this PDF does not open correctly on my
> Mac.
>> The noteheads, rather than all being bass clefs as before, are now
>> empty rectangles.
>
> That's disappointing. Could it be due to using Maestro Wide as the
> default music font? Could you possibly see it you get the same with
> plain Maestro
> http://www.euphonium.plus.com/Music/Finale/Maestro.pdf
>
> Also I found an option in the CuteFTP print set-up to "download TT
> fonts as Softfonts" I don't understand that but I made a file with
> that option selected:
> http://www.euphonium.plus.com/Music/Finale/MainScore2(Softfont).pdf
>
Well, isn't that curious.
All the files open fine with Acrobat Reader 7.0.5, but Preview (which I
have set to be the default viewer for PDFs) chokes on them all, showing
notehead substitutions.
Obviously, it's a Preview issue, not a problem with you. But this is
the first PDF I've ever seen that does not display correctly in
Preview.
Sorry for the false alarm.
Christopher
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Message: 8
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 12:25:32 -0500
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Subject: [Finale] display time signature
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Message: 9
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 09:33:28 -0800
From: ThomaStudios <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Finale] display time signature
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Use the Measure Tool for force the time signature to show in the
appropriate bars.
J.D. Thomas
ThomaStudios
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J.D. Thomas
ThomaStudios
West Linn OR
www.thomastudios.com
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On Nov 15, 2005, at 9:25 AM, Steven Gruver wrote:
> I'm creating a rhythm worksheet for my band students and would like to
> display the time signature on EVERY line. I know about courtesy time
> signature when you change to a different signature, but I would like
> to show 6/8 time on every line.
>
> How is this done?
>
> Steve
>
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Message: 10
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 09:33:55 -0800
From: Brad Beyenhof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Finale] display time signature
To: [email protected]
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On 11/15/05, Steven Gruver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm creating a rhythm worksheet for my band students and would like to
> display the time signature on EVERY line. I know about courtesy time
> signature when you change to a different signature, but I would like to
> show 6/8 time on every line.
You can't actually tell it to show timesigs "every line," but you can
use the Measure tool to individually show the timesig on the first
measure of each line. Just double-click each measure and choose
"always show" in the timesig drop-down.
--
Brad Beyenhof
Real-time Finale discussion: http://www.finaleirc.com
my blog: http://augmentedfourth.blogspot.com
Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also
deprive me of the possibility of being right. ~ Igor Stravinsky
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Message: 11
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 09:38:28 -0800
From: Brad Beyenhof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Finale] General upgrade question
To: [email protected]
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<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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On 11/14/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'd like to know what is the received
> wisdom about the value of upgrading (I am a pretty lightweight user), or
> maybe there's even a way to upgrade to a less elderly version that isn't
> actually the current version? Please advise, O wise ones. As always my
> thanks in advance.
If you can find it (maybe on eBay or something), I'd recommend getting
a copy of Finale 2005. There might even be a way to purchase a Fin2k5
upgrade directly from MakeMusic!, but I haven't checked that out. If
you've got an ultra-new Mac, 2006 might run well, but on my 1GHz G4
with 1.25GB of RAM and OSX 10.3.9 it's unusably laggy.
--
Brad Beyenhof
Real-time Finale discussion: http://www.finaleirc.com
my blog: http://augmentedfourth.blogspot.com
Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also
deprive me of the possibility of being right. ~ Igor Stravinsky
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Message: 12
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 17:46:56 -0000
From: "Peter Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Finale] display time signature
To: <[email protected]>
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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---- Original Message -----
From: Steven Gruver
To: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 5:25 PM
Subject: [Finale] display time signature
I'm creating a rhythm worksheet for my band students and would like to
display the time signature on EVERY line. I know about courtesy time
signature when you change to a different signature, but I would like to show
6/8 time on every line.
How is this done?
Steve
I don't think there's a simple way to just check a box to do this, you need
to determine the first measure in each system to begin with and then and
alter the measure attributes for every first measure to display the time
signature repeatedly.
I would first enter all the notes, articulations expressions and smartshapes
etc and then apply music spacing using a fairly loose setting. Updating
will space the music properly, but you can move a measure or two in Page
view if you want to, using the Mass Mover Tool. Once you've got it the way
you want you can then use the Measure Tool on the first measure of each
system and check the "Always Show Time Signature" box. The fairly loose
music spacing will allow enough space for the 6/8 to appear and not squash
the notes together.
Peter
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